PATRICK JACOBS ALLE 5 VIE, MILANO. SALONE DEL MOBILE
DISTRICT INAUGURATION
15TH APRIL, 6 PM TO MIDNIGHT
PRESS PREVIEW
MONDAY 13TH, 11 AM TO 3 PM
PATRICK JACOBS WORKS WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN SPECIFIC VENUES IN
THE STREETS OF 5 VIE DISTRICT:
SPAZIO SANREMO, VIA ZECCA VECCHIA, 3 Angolo VIA FOSSE ARDEATINE
STUDIO G, PIAZZA SANTAMBROGIO, 16
ETHNOARTE, VIA SAN GIOVANNI SUL MURO, 21
BECARA, PIAZZA MENTANA, 3
ALL THE ART WORKS WILL BE VISIBLE 24 HOURS A DAY.
YOU WILL FIND THEM WALKING ALONG THE DISTRICT.
THE POOL NYC gallery is proud to present Patrick Jacobs first solo exhibition in Italy.
The artist has been included in American Dreamers at La Strozzina in Firenze in 2012 and in different shows in Venice, Bologna and Rome organized by the gallery.
Patrick Jacobs work on view in Milan at 5 VIE consists of a meticulously constructed diorama installed within the hidden architecture of the wall and viewed through a circular window of glass lenses.
The luminescent portholes by Jacobs are proper light boxes functioning through a LED light and two convex lenses that create an illusionary depth.
Viewers will look at Patricks mysterious works installed along the 5 VIE district.
The landscape works take their name from the popular Ortho Books for home and garden care, while the interiors are based on the artists apartment in New York. These series blur perceptual distinctions between painting, photography and constructed reality.
Jacobs works will create a contemporary art itinerary in the oldest neighborhood of Milan. They will be visible night and day by looking into the peepholes along the designated path. Visitors in Milan will have the same experience of New Yorkers walking by the Museum of Art and Design of New York, where Patricks work is permanently installed on the facade.
Patrick Jacobs (1971) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
His work has been exhibited worldwide. Selected Exhibitions include: 2015 Come closer to me, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY , 2013 WIDE SHOT, THE POOL NYC, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 2013 On Time/Grand Central at 100, MTA Arts for Transit Gallery,New York, NY, 2012 Interiors: From Within Outward, THE POOL NYC, New York, NY, 2012 Otherworldly, Des Mondes Irreels, Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France, 2012 American Dreamers: Facing or Escaping Reality in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2011 Otherworldly: Optical Delusions & Small Realities, MAD Museum of Arts and Design, NY, 2009 Obsessions, curated by John Zorn, MEM Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 2009 Cream No Sugar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
MARCH 5-8, 2015
PIER 90
WEST 50th STREET @ 12th AVENUE
NEW YORK
BOOTH C22
Eric Mistretta‘s work utilizes elements of language and popular cultural imagery in compositions that are at once familiar but exist in manipulated, unexpected contexts. Through this process of re-contextualization, identifiable images are infused with a new sensibility, and the resulting hybrids elicit both feelings of familiarity and a sense of absurdity.
In works such as Ninety Poems by Robert Frost, Mistretta’s homage to the twentieth century author who tirelessly avoided innovation by relying on traditional forms of nineteenth century poetry, the artist depicts the non-existent title of Frost’s imagined volume in the style of a 1990’s Newport cigarette advertisement. These ads are most remembered for conveying a heavily manufactured sense of excitement and enthusiasm, which culminated in the “Alive with pleasure!” campaign. InNinety Poems by Robert Frost, Mistretta deploys Newport’s advertising strategy to instill the painting with a sentiment deliberately at odds with Frost’s sobering, rural poetry.
In one of the artists new series of paintings for VOLTA NY 2015, Mistretta explores his interest in floral-printed textiles, using them as visually rich backdrops for additional painted imagery. The patterned, cotton fabrics strike a dynamic note of depicting something natural through highly synthetic means. Their associations, which range from fashion to bedding to decoration, all serve as catalysts for further transformation through the incorporation of additional content.
Image:
Eric Mistretta, Fiend Club (Purgatory), 2015, Oil pastel and wax crayon on printed cotton over canvas, 60 x 48 in.